Fumitoshi UKAI writes: > Hi, ruby package maintainers! > > I've upload new ruby-defaults that make ruby 1.8.0 the debault version of > ruby. > I contains some new binary package so it takes time to get into unstable. > You can get the new ruby-defaults from > > deb http://pkg-ruby.alioth.debian.org/deb/ ./ > deb-src http://pkg-ruby.alioth.debian.org/deb/ ./ > > Note that > - packages that depends on ruby (<< 1.7) will be removed by dist-upgrade. > It must be fixed to depend on ruby1.6, or to change dependency version > if it works with ruby 1.8. > > - I don't recommend that package depends on libruby. Instead, ruby module > package should depend on libruby1.8 or libruby1.6. > > - module packages that build-depends on ruby-dev MUST be fixed to > use ruby1.8-dev (or ruby1.6-dev) instead of ruby-dev.
I did a NMU for swig1.3 (depending on ruby). I'm wondering why make a version the default, if it does not build on all archs (powerpc). How are package maintainers supposed to handle this? what will the ruby-defaults package default to on the powerpc architecture? Thanks, Matthias